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FORBES’ FIRSTERS FOR FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
RACE 5, TWO-YEAR-OLD FILLIES, 5 ½ FURLONGS, DIRT, 4:42 P.M. TRUFAST (2yo chestnut filly) is a half-sister to Grand Bank, who took an overnight stakes at Louisiana Downs. Those two are out of Starry Lake, a half-sister to two black-type winners, including Hi Tech Honeycomb, who captured a minor stakes at Prairie Meadows and placed in two graded events at Gulfstream Park. By Yes It’s True, Trufast was purchased for $200,000 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. Owner: Goldmark Farm
PALOOZA (2yo chestnut filly) is out of Fortyniner Fever, an unraced half-sister to the 2000 Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus. Mr. Prospector sired Fusaichi Pegasus, while Forty Niner, a son of Mr. Prospector, sired Fortyniner Fever. Palooza, a half-sister to overnight stakes winner Bold Angel and Grade 3 Kentucky Cup Juvenile victor Texas Fever, hails from Hennessy’s final North American crop. She sold for $185,000 at the 2008 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, making her the most expensive of eight weanlings by Hennessy to sell at auction in 2008. Owner: Andrew Rosen & Georgica Stable
RACE 6, TWO-YEAR-OLD FILLIES, 1 1/16th MILES, TURF, 5:15 P.M. WINTER MEMORIES (2yo gray or roan filly) is out of turf mare Memories of Silver, who won the 1996 Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup, captured four other graded stakes, and earned over $1.4 million. Memories of Silver has produced overnight turf stakes winners British Blue and War Trace. By El Prado, Winter Memories races for her breeder. Owner: Phillips Racing Partnership
BUSTER’S READY (2yo bay filly), a homebred by More Than Ready, is the first foal out of the unraced mare Beatem Buster, a half-sister to the 2005 Horse of the Year and Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Saint Liam, who like Buster’s Ready was by a sire representing the Halo line. Beatem Buster is also a half-sister to the Grade 3 turf winner Congressionalhonor. Owner: Edward P. Evans
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